ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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From fecal transplants to the yoghurt-industrial complex, we’ve never been more absorbed in the workings of our gut. But can we trust it? Nadia, Jem and Keir investigate the mysterious connections between mind and body, reason and instinct. How did capitalism separate our minds from our bodies? Is a belief in intuition filling the gap […]

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0:00.0	This is an action club. Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.
0:24.0	My name's Kia Milburn
0:26.0	and I'm joined as usual by my very good friend Nadia Idol.
0:30.0	Hello?
0:31.0	And my other very good friend Jeremy Gilbert.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:35.0	And today we're discussing the topic of trusting your gut.
0:40.0	Nadea, this was your idea. What in the world were you thinking of?
0:45.6	Yeah, this is definitely my topic and I'm very excited to talk about this today.
0:50.0	So, I'm fascinated by the gut and its role in our health, our thinking, our emotions, and potentially how it affects our decision makingmaking and also how this is expressed or not expressed in
1:07.3	culture and society. So what sparked this is it seems to me coming from a Mediterranean culture after 22 years of living in the UK
1:16.7	there seems like a distinct lack of what I would call gut chat in culture.
1:22.4	Why is that and what function does that absence have? So let's be real, right? Having a good
1:29.7	bowel movement is one of the most satisfactory and arguably pleasurable daily habits that humans
1:36.1	as well as other evolved mammals have and it's also well known as a key indicator of the state of our health now. So why do you not talk
1:45.1	about it more and my question is does history and capitalism have anything to do with
1:50.3	it? But related to that I'm also interested in all of this research
1:54.4	coming out on the connection between our gut microbiota as in all of the different
1:59.2	microbes that live in our gut and things like our emotions and serotonin and how we feel and whether it effectively mimics some drugs.
2:07.3	So that's really interesting, all of this research coming out over the last 10 years. But the third point, I'm also interested in talking about this, for, is this idea of gut instinct, which is also related. Do we make decisions with our gut? Is it good or is it bad? Is that
2:26.8	anti-rational? And what should the ACFM position be on any of this? So those are some of the reasons why I'd love to talk about our gut and
2:36.0	trusting our gut in this episode today. So Jeremy, what do you have to say about this? Are you
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